Construction of airmen.dk  About airmen.dk * Sources * Construction * FAF Summary  preliminary edition  24 NOV 2008 

There was a long way from the idea of a website and to the present stage! Finn Rasmussen from &RASMUSSEN, host of www.airmen.dk, gave fine technical assistance and help to get started. Without him nothing would have happened.

You can easily switch between overview and details in a database. You can see all of the crew of a plane even if they rest in different cemeteries, and you can see all in the same cemetery. There are 12 search criterias to be mixed at will. Clickable maps of cemeteries, USAAF-airmen and planes are useful.

The database is made in Access 2003 and the website in FrontPage 2002, Internet Explorer 7, screen 1024 x 768, print horizontally, landscape.
The Lancaster-button is from this photo from Flightline UK and the flags to indicate languages are from Hotel Randers.

Anders Bjørnvad approved of my plan and mentioned Søren C. Flensted, Airwar over Denmark - (AOD). Søren C. Flensted accepted my plan, and then it was possible to move on! A contact to a person with knowledge of airmen very often gives at least a couple of suggestions of other persons who may have useful information. See more in Sources. Ole Rønnest gave exact positions of planes crashed at Aalborg and permission to quote "The Doomed Squadron". Frank Weber sent "Western Allied Air Raids in Denmark during the Second World War" in 2 volumes!

Ove Hermansen translated a poem by Paul H. Scott  from the Runnymede Memorial into Danish, and Aage Hill-Madsen translated into English the story of Wasik, who was helped to Sweden. From 18 November 2008 Kirsten Klitgård (KK) has translated a number of texts.

If nothing else is indicated I have taken the photos. Fortunately, via M.F. Jørgensen and Carsten Jørgensen Hans Andersen has made his great collection of photos of memorials available to www.airmen.dk . He had not been to Bornholm, but Birger Bendtsen from Pedersker sent photos from there. Knud Riis has delivered photos from Esbjerg and 10 other cemeteries! Mogens Jeppesen had fine photos from Aabenraa. Jørgen Toft sent some from Stenbjerg and from islands came this: Else Hjort Nielsen sent photos from Drejø and Skarø, Ebbe Bork from Avernakø, Helene Hennings from Anholt, Ib Walbum from Omø, Eli V. Nielsen from Sejerø and Solvejg Lei from Aarø. The collection of photos of headstones and gravestones was complete by 12. august 2008! Peter Forrester sent photos from Stadil.

When names of airmen at the cemeteries had been typed in, many airmen appeared via a search page. At 93 planes there were 0 hits! All survived or none has a known grave. They will if possible appear in www.airmen.dk. Pages on special subjects will be added.

On 5 May 2008 two more monuments at crash sites were unveiled to WEL BK368 and LAN ND675. After that I went to Zealand and Lolland-Falster with my camera. It was a pleasure to visit Anders Bjørnvad and later Helge W. Gram. Both of them have written about allied airmen in Denmark. Each of them gave me useful information and books!

You are welcome to spread the news of Allied Airmen in Denmark at www.airmen.dk and link to it! You can help me with links about air crashes and airmen. 

Contact Anders Straarup  straarup@linksbuketten.dk  / Anders Straarup, Karetmagervej 25, DK-8920 Randers NV   See Linksbuketten - A Bunch of Links.